Location

Dahanu is located 65 km north of Virar on the Western Railway line of Mumbai Suburban Railway

Mumbai Suburban Railway

The Mumbai Suburban Railway system, part of the public transport system of Mumbai, is provided for by the state-run Indian Railways' two zonal Western Railways and Central Railways. The system carries more than 6.99 million commuters on a daily basis. It has the highest passenger densities of any...

. It can be reached from National Highway NH-8, 20 km off from Charoti Naka. It is 22 km North of Boisar

Boisar

- Geography :Boisar is located at . It has an average elevation of 10 metres .Boisar is located north of Virar on the Western Railway line of Mumbai Suburban Railway. To reach Boisar, one can catch Shuttle/MEMU trains from Virar. Some long-distance trains also stop here. By road, it can be...

 on the Western Railway line. It has nice and beautiful beaches. There is nice beach at Parnaka. Nearby Sai temple is located in Narpad.

Topographically, Dahanu taluka can be divided into a 10-12 kilometre wide bandarpatti, the coastal belt of lowlands and flats extending from the sea coast to the railway line situated at the foot of the Sahyadari range. The entire coastal belt with its rich natural resources, wetlands, mangroves and river deltas, forms a lucrative fishing area. The junglepatti, to the east of the railway line consists of tropical deciduous forests. Interestingly the forest cover in Dahanu is still fairly high at 45.2 percent. A large part of the indigenous community resides in this zone, in remote almost inaccessible villages.
Also famous for Mahalaxmi Temple located just 4km from Charoti.

Agriculture

Dahanu is well known for its famous delicious chikoos, capsicum

Capsicum

Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Its species are native to the Americas where they have been cultivated for thousands of years, but they are now also cultivated worldwide, used as spices, vegetables, and medicines - and have become are a key element in...

 and coconut

Coconut

The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae . It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which is not a botanical nut. The spelling cocoanut is an old-fashioned form of the word...

s,tadee a juice of palm tree.

Dahanu Thermal Power Station

Dahanu Thermal Power Station (DTPS) is Reliance Energy Ltd.’s single largest power generating facility. It is a 500 MW (2 X 250 MW) coal based thermal power station.

The power plant was commissioned in 1995. DTPS is the first power utility to get both ISO 9000

ISO 9000

The ISO 9000 family of standards relates to quality management systems and is designed to help organizations ensure they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders . The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and available through National...

 and ISO 14001 certificate in India.

Electrostatic precipitator

Electrostatic precipitator

An electrostatic precipitator , or electrostatic air cleaner is a particulate collection device that removes particles from a flowing gas using the force of an induced electrostatic charge...

s (ESP) are installed to collect fly ash and minimize emissions to the atmosphere.

DTPS has installed a 275.34 m stack

Stack

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 to ensure better dispersion of particulate matter. The stack has a diameter of 31.5 m at the bottom and a diameter of 16 m at the top, with two separate flues of 5.25 m diameter at the bottom and 4.75 m diameter at the top for each unit. This is the highest stack

Stack

-Mathematics:* Stack , general category-theoretical concept to formalise "pull-back" operations in geometry and algebra* Algebraic stack, a generalisation of scheme and algebraic space in algebraic geometry; a specific type of the above-Computers:...

 in India.
(reference: http://www.rel.co.in/aboutus/dahanutps.asp )

Nearby Industrial Area and Other Power Stations

Tarapur

Tarapur

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 Industrial Estate and Tarapur

Tarapur

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 Atomic Power Station are located close by. The huge industrial area at Tarapur

Tarapur

Tarapur may refer to places in India:* Tarapur, Maharashtra**Tarapur Atomic Power Station* Tarapur, Bihar* Tarapur, Gujarat* Tarapur, Orissa* Tarapur, Madhya Pradesh...

 accommodates various specialty chemical, bulk drugs, steel and alloy and textile manufacturing companies.

Residential

Dahanu is a good residential location. Very good schools & colleges, are located here.

Public transport

State transport buses (Maharashtra State Transport Corporation) and auto rickshaws are the general mode of transport.Dahanu Road is also accessible by train.

Population of Dahanu Taluka

In spite of a tradition of resistance, the indigenous Warlis have today become poor marginal farmers or migrant labourers barely surviving from year to year. While their narratives and consciousness come from a history of police brutality, exploitation by landlords, moneylenders and liquor contractors and from their continuous struggle for land rights and access to the forests, they are today forced into practicing settled subsistence agriculture. Moreover, categorized as backward and primitive, their culture, heritage and ecological understanding has come under attack. They now live on the margins of industrial and urban areas on the fringes of their slowly eroding forest lands.